Alright, that should be it. You can confirm that terraform is setup by typing terraform in the terminal. It should respond something that seems sensible.

Write the config for your bucket

So terraform is a tool that lets you be awesome without touching the Amazon GUI. You setup a config file, and run it with terraform, which lets you be awesome without spending much energy. (It does also much more, but that could be its own series of posts)

Manual version

The terraform command above is sufficient to do everything we want. But for the sake of article length, let’s say I hadn’t helped you out with the config files, and you had to configure it all by yourself: